Sex, Beer, Heroin and Cocaine: How Prosecutors Pay Off Criminal Snitches
Alternet (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
In Chicago during the late 1980s, the U.S. attorney was prosecuting a ruthless, religiously inspired gang called the . Federal prosecutors were so dependent on incarcerated gang leaders to make their case that six informants were permitted to make a hedonistic mockery of the criminal justice system. Henry Leon Harris was one of several who had sex with a visiting wife or girlfriend in...